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I was recently invited to speak at science-related meetings on two consecutive days in different places in Europe.
That is why the prize has invited comparisons to an Oscar lifetime achievement award that comes only when the recipient is nearing death.
As a case in point, many Western observers thought that Norway’s trade relations with China would be undermined when dissident Liu Xiaobo was invited to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in December 2010.
As the meeting ended, Saif invited me to Libya and I said – more out of politeness than anything else – that I would be happy to come.
Not every country’s central bank – not even every “friendly” country’s central bank – has been invited to join the swap-lines club.
The BoE’s governor is now in the odd position of being invited to knock himself out – and in public, too.
On the other hand, the Chinese have been invited to develop Gwadar port on the Balochistan coast, and to use it as a base for their fast-expanding navy.
I have also been invited to present them to the US Senate.
In contrast to government-organized electoral initiatives, every Venezuelan, regardless of political affiliation, was invited to participate and express their views.
The original legislation invited international outrage, especially from Israel.
Last month the Ministry of Education invited a delegation from Columbia University’s Harriman Institute to visit the country to discuss educational practices in the United States and exchange views about educational reform.
Moreover, North Korea could not deny failure this time, because the regime invited international media to attend the event – even allowing foreign reporters into the mission-control room – in order to legitimize it as a “satellite” launch and not a weapons test.
For years, these banks’ officials have invited their counterparts from developing and emerging-market countries to conferences and meetings in order to teach them the tricks of the trade.
In 1993, Cuba invited an IMF official, Executive Director Jacques de Groote, to visit Havana for secret meetings with Castro and other senior officials.
Zuma’s turbulent personal life – many wives and his embarrassing contention during a rape trial that he avoided HIV infection by taking a shower – has invited ridicule.
China was invited to join the club, with the implicit promise that after it had learned to play by the rules, it could contribute to amending them.
Seen in this light, it is not surprising that China has invited India to join the maritime Silk Road initiative.
In firing rockets at Israel, Hamas invited a military response.
With the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) having just invited all of the presidential candidates to address its annual policy conference next week in Washington, DC, this may be about to change.
So it invited 13 economists from around the world (including the authors – four former chief economists of the World Bank) to do just that.
But the summit has also attracted controversy over whether President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his senior officials will be invited.
Indeed, South African President Thabo Mbeki has threatened not to participate unless Mugabe is invited.
Simply put, the idea of the Union must resonate with all Europeans, not just those who get invited to exclusive meetings.
Worse, the fudging language invited a “we, too” riposte from Scottish nationalists, who rightly argued that if special arrangements were going to be made for Northern Ireland’s Remain majority, then the Scots, who also voted to remain, should be offered a similar deal.
After prolonged hesitation, the West took a step to avoid this threat in Madrid not long ago when it invited three former communist countries to join NATO.
“I have invited Manmohan a half-dozen times to visit Pakistan.
This time, the initiative came from Singh, who invited his Pakistani counterpart, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, to visit Mohali, near New Delhi, to watch the two countries play the semi-final in the Cricket World Cup.
Gilani invited Singh to visit Pakistan, an invitation that “will be considered carefully,” according to Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao.
They had been invited by the government in the wake of World War II to help offset a labor shortage, taking hard-to-fill jobs in the National Health Service (NHS) and other sectors.
According to international law, none of this would require approval by the United Nations Security Council (which Russia and China might veto), because the military force would be invited by a legitimate government seeking support to uphold the country’s constitution.
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